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Copyright Extremists Seek Censored Search

Copyright extremists and their lobbying organizations such as the MPAA and the RIAA are at it again. From Tech Dirt:

Remember how back after SOPA ended, the MPAA's Chris Dodd kept going on
and on about how he was going to take a more conciliatory and
partnership-based approach to the tech industry
(which he mistakenly seems to believe is defined by "Google")?
Apparently that's out the window. Today both the MPAA and the RIAA have
launched a one-two punch on Google, which is clearly designed to do one
thing: get Google to start censoring its search results so that it no
longer returns what people are looking for, but instead returns what the
MPAA and RIAA think should be the right search results. The
fundamental problem, of course, is that the MPAA and RIAA both seem to
think that Google is supposed to deliver the answers they want the public to see, when everyone else recognizes Google's role is to return the results its users are searching for.